ASO President doesn't want Riis at Tour

ASO President Patrice Clerc

ASO President Patrice Clerc (Image credit: AFP)

Patrice Clerc, President of Tour de France organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), has said he would find it "shocking" to have Team CSC boss Bjarne Riis at this year's event following the Dane's confession of using EPO to win the Tour title in 1996. "The way things are now, I have no interest to work together with these people," he told French newspaper L'Equipe.

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